Category:Lise la Cour

Lise la Cour 

Danish ballerina and choreographer (1944-2016)
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Date of birth	21 August 1944 Copenhagen
Date of death	13 August 2016
Country of citizenship	Kingdom of Denmark
Occupation	actress choreographer dancer
Spouse	Peter Martins
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Lise la Cour (1944–2016) was a Danish ballerina, choreographer and dance teacher. After training at the company's ballet school, she premièred at the Royal Danish Ballet in 1961 and went on to star in a series of ballets including Bournonville's Napoli, Balanchine's The Four Temperaments and Flemming Flindt's The Young Man Must Marry. From the late 1970s, she was principally a choreographer, creating ballets based on the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen's, starting with Hyrdinden og skorstensfejeren (The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep) in 1988. In 2002, she moved to San Jose, California, where she was appointed school director of the Ballet San Jose until she established her own school, LaCademy of Ballet, in 2012.